EP0124264B1 - Steckverbinder mit eingebautem Filter - Google Patents
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- EP0124264B1 EP0124264B1 EP84302142A EP84302142A EP0124264B1 EP 0124264 B1 EP0124264 B1 EP 0124264B1 EP 84302142 A EP84302142 A EP 84302142A EP 84302142 A EP84302142 A EP 84302142A EP 0124264 B1 EP0124264 B1 EP 0124264B1
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
- H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
- H01R13/66—Structural association with built-in electrical component
- H01R13/719—Structural association with built-in electrical component specially adapted for high frequency, e.g. with filters
- H01R13/7195—Structural association with built-in electrical component specially adapted for high frequency, e.g. with filters with planar filters with openings for contacts
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
- H03H—IMPEDANCE NETWORKS, e.g. RESONANT CIRCUITS; RESONATORS
- H03H1/00—Constructional details of impedance networks whose electrical mode of operation is not specified or applicable to more than one type of network
- H03H1/0007—Constructional details of impedance networks whose electrical mode of operation is not specified or applicable to more than one type of network of radio frequency interference filters
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- This invention relates to an electrical filter connector for reducing electromagnetic interference.
- Filter connectors have been employed for decades to attenuate high frequency electrical signals, especially for military purposes. These filters have been relatively sophisticated and expensive. In recent years, the common usage of computers and particularly home computers has resulted in the generation of significant additional amounts of high frequency electromagnetic signals interfering with other electrical devices. For the purpose of reducing the output of such signals, the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has promulgated regulations requiring attenuation at their source. See 47 CR 15, Subpart J.
- FCC Federal Communications Commission
- the present invention relates to a filter connector of the type comprising a conductive housing, a filter member enclosed by the housing, and conductive pins mounted to the filter member.
- ground planes are spaced from the filter member and in contact with the housing and the filter member is composed of multiple monolithic capacitors each having a first electrode in electrical contact with the housing through the ground plane or planes, a second electrode in electrical contact with a respective adjacent one of said pins and a dielectric therebetween.
- one or more ground planes are provided at least adjacent to the filter member and in direct electrical contact with the housing through which the pins pass without contact and means is provided to establish direct electrical contact between the first electrodes of the capacitors and the housing.
- the or each ground plane may take the form of a metallic plate spaced from the filter member or a metallization layer deposited on one side of the filter member or otherwise spaced therefrom.
- the capacitors are preferably thick film capacitors produced by screen printing multiple layers onto a substrate conveniently an alumina sheet.
- one ground plane is a thick film metallization layer on a horizontal surface of a rectangularly shaped alumina substrate and another horizontal surface of the alumina substrate has a screen printed metallization layer forming said first capacitor electrode followed by two screen printed layers of barium titanate forming the dielectric, another screen printed metallization layer forming said second capacitor electrode and at least one layer of a glass encapsulant.
- a first set of solder joints may establish the direct electrical connection between the first electrodes and the housing while further solder joints connect the or each ground plane to the housing. Another set of solder joints may connect the conductive pins to the second electrodes.
- This invention provides an inexpensive electrical filter connector for effectively filtering a wide band of frequencies up to 1000 MHz.
- the filter connector 8 comprises a housing 10 made up of the top shell 12 and a bottom shell 14. Threaded inserts 28 are provided on the connector optionally to provide a mounting fixture to a cabinet.
- the interior of the connector 8 is protected by a top insulator 20 and a bottom insulator 38.
- the housing 10 encloses two rows of pins 18 mounted on a filter member 16.
- the pins 18 are individually mounted on the filter member 16 by solder joints 22.
- Contacts 32 are arranged in the top shell 12 to provide ground contact for a female plug (not shown) inserted over the pins 18.
- the two shells 12 and 14 are crimped together by tabs 40.
- the pins 18 can be either straight or right-angled as shown as 34 in Figs. 1-3.
- the filter member 16 consists of multiple thick film capacitor units each having a pair of electrodes 44, 50 separated by a dielectric 46, 48.
- a single capacitor unit for the filter member 16 is shown for illustration purposes in Figs. 5-7 and 11.
- the capacitors of the filter member 16 utilize a common alumina substrate 42 and each capacitor has an electrode in the form of a first metallization layer 44 screen printed to one surface of the substrate 42. This electrode or layer 44 is directly grounded to the shell 14 by solder joints 36.
- the metallization composition can contain a noble metal such as gold or a palladium/silver alloy, a binder and vehicle. The vehicle is removed during firing of the metallization. A dielectric material 46 and 48 is then screen printed over the electrode 44.
- a second electrode 50 is prepared by screen printing another layer of noble metal metallization overthe barium titanate dielectric. It is preferred that the metallizations contain palladium/silver.
- the electrode 50 is electrically in contact with the associated pin 18 through a solder joint 22. During assembly solder is allowed to enter the holes in the substrate 42 to seal the pins 18 to the electrode 50 as shown at 23 thereby to create the joints 22.
- the filter member 16 is encapsulated with one or more layers 52, 54 of a glass encapsulant to protect the porous dielectric 46 and 48 from moisture.
- the glass encapsulant can be any of the compositions commonly used in the industry to protect capacitors.
- a silicone sealant 56 shown in Figs. 1-2 can be added around the glass encapsulant to prevent moisture from entering into the filter member 16.
- ground planes 24 and 26 An added attenuation drop of at least thirty decibels at 1000 MHz is derived from this connector by using one or more ground planes 24 and 26.
- Each ground plane 24, 26 has holes 30 through which the pins 18 pass without touching the ground plane.
- Each ground plane 24 and 26 is soldered directly to the housing shell 14 with solder joints 25, 27 and Figs. 2 and 3 show some of the solder joints 25 connecting the top ground plane 24 to the shell 14.
- Figs. 3 and 4 show one of the several holes 31 in the bottom insulator 38 for accommodating the pins 18.
- the ground planes 24 and 26 are spaced apart from the filter member 16 and take the form of conductive metal plates.
- Filter member 16' can have the same configuration as set forth in Fig. 5. However, in this modified assembly the top ground plane 24' is a metallization layer screen-printed onto one surface of the alumina substrate 42.
- the metallization is preferably a noble metal such as palladium/silver alloy or gold.
- the bottom ground plane 26 is again a spaced apart metal plate as set forth in Fig. 5.
- ground plane filter member assembly differs from the spaced apart metal plate ground plane 26 of Fig. 6 by being a metallization such as palladium/silver screen printed onto the top of the glass encapsulant 54 of the filter member 16".
- the ground plane 24' is the same as set forth in Fig. 6 and the filter member 16" is also the same as 16' in Fig. 6.
- a third alternative ground plane filter member assembly is set forth.
- this assembly only one ground plane 24' is employed in association with filter member 16"'.
- Ground plane 24' is the same as shown in Fig. 7.
- the only difference in this assembly from the one in Fig. 7 is the omission of the second ground plane 26'.
- Ground plane 24' could also be spaced apart from filter member 16"' as shown for ground plane 24 in Fig. 5.
- the filter element can be made by the methods set forth above or it can be a monolithic structure made from green tape, as is well known in the prior art. In either case, the use of ground planes, with both spaced apart or with one or both ground planes screen printed adjacent to a side of the filter member, provides an added attenuation of electromagnetic signals up to 1000 MHz.
- a typical comparison of attenuation curves is shown in Fig. 12.
- Curve (a) shows an attenuation curve using a filter connector without a ground plane.
- Curve (b) is an attenuation curve for a filter connector employing the same filter member but having a pair of ground planes as shown in Fig. 5.
- the metal in the spaced apart ground planes can be any conductive substance such as steel, brass, copper, silver, gold, palladium, platinum or alloys thereof.
- the metallization compositions useful in producing the ground planes 24' and 26' screen printed directly to the filter member 16" as shown in Fig. 7 are finely divided metal particles together with binder and vehicle screen printed on alumina subsurfaces or onto glass encapsulant layers covering thick film capacitors.
- the dispersion of the metal particles is usually in an inert liquid organic medium or vehicle. Selection of the composition of the metal particles is usually based on a compromise of cost and performance. Performance usually suggests the use of the noble metals or their alloys because they are relatively inert during firing of the laminates to produce electrically continuous conductors.
- base metals are often oxidized in the air at elevated temperatures and in many cases react with the dielectric material during firing.
- a ferrite sleeve 19 also can be provided on each of the pins 18, as seen in Fig. 8. Such sleeves are well known as seen in US-A-4 144 509 but the use of the ground planes of this invention will increase the effectiveness of filter connectors employing ferrites.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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US48059283A | 1983-03-30 | 1983-03-30 | |
US480592 | 1983-03-30 |
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EP0124264A1 EP0124264A1 (de) | 1984-11-07 |
EP0124264B1 true EP0124264B1 (de) | 1987-11-19 |
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EP84302142A Expired EP0124264B1 (de) | 1983-03-30 | 1984-03-29 | Steckverbinder mit eingebautem Filter |
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EP (1) | EP0124264B1 (de) |
JP (1) | JPS59184478A (de) |
KR (1) | KR900005873B1 (de) |
AT (1) | ATE30987T1 (de) |
AU (1) | AU546563B2 (de) |
BR (1) | BR8401396A (de) |
CA (1) | CA1215753A (de) |
DE (1) | DE3467662D1 (de) |
Families Citing this family (16)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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WO1986000175A1 (en) * | 1984-06-13 | 1986-01-03 | Amp Incorporated | Filtered shielded connector assembly |
US4657323A (en) * | 1986-01-27 | 1987-04-14 | Itt Corporation | D-subminature filter connector |
FR2602920B1 (fr) * | 1986-04-24 | 1988-11-18 | Souriau & Cie | Connecteur a filtre d'attenuation incorpore |
NL8701661A (nl) * | 1987-07-14 | 1989-02-01 | Du Pont Nederland | Filtereenheid voor connectoren. |
DE68920171D1 (de) * | 1988-02-29 | 1995-02-09 | Siemens Ag | Bipolarer gefilterter Durchführungsanschluss. |
JPH02246204A (ja) * | 1989-03-20 | 1990-10-02 | Hitachi Ltd | 貫通形コンデンサ |
US4992061A (en) * | 1989-07-28 | 1991-02-12 | Thomas & Betts Corporation | Electrical filter connector |
US4930200A (en) * | 1989-07-28 | 1990-06-05 | Thomas & Betts Corporation | Method of making an electrical filter connector |
JPH04129185A (ja) * | 1990-09-20 | 1992-04-30 | Yazaki Corp | ノイズ防止コネクタ |
DE9107385U1 (de) * | 1991-06-14 | 1992-07-16 | Filtec Filtertechnologie für die Elektronikindustrie GmbH, 59557 Lippstadt | Mehrpoliger Steckverbinder für elektronische Signalleitungen |
DE9112098U1 (de) * | 1991-09-27 | 1993-01-28 | Siemens AG, 8000 München | Filter-Stecker |
US5248266A (en) * | 1992-09-15 | 1993-09-28 | Itt Coporation | Connector with sealed component contact |
NL9201753A (nl) * | 1992-10-09 | 1994-05-02 | Du Pont Nederland | Afdeklaag in filtereenheid voor konnektoren. |
JPH0878101A (ja) * | 1994-09-07 | 1996-03-22 | Nippon Carbide Ind Co Inc | 電気フィルタアダプタ |
DE29902505U1 (de) * | 1999-02-02 | 2000-03-23 | Filtec Filtertechnologie für die Elektronikindustrie GmbH, 59557 Lippstadt | Planarfilter |
DE29911342U1 (de) * | 1999-07-02 | 2000-08-24 | Filtec Filtertechnologie für die Elektronikindustrie GmbH, 59557 Lippstadt | Vielpolige Winkelsteckvorrichtung |
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US3538464A (en) * | 1963-08-20 | 1970-11-03 | Erie Technological Prod Inc | Multiple pin connector having ferrite core stacked capacitor filter |
BR7508698A (pt) * | 1975-01-08 | 1976-08-24 | Bunker Ramo | Conjunto de filtro para conector |
JPS5320850A (en) * | 1976-08-11 | 1978-02-25 | Hitachi Ltd | Detaching device of shadow mask |
US4144509A (en) * | 1977-01-12 | 1979-03-13 | Bunker Ramo Corporation | Filter connector |
JPS6028447B2 (ja) * | 1978-06-22 | 1985-07-04 | 太陽誘電株式会社 | 複合lcフイルタ及びその製造方法 |
JPS5673935A (en) * | 1979-11-20 | 1981-06-19 | Matsushita Electric Ind Co Ltd | Connector device |
DE3016315C2 (de) * | 1980-04-28 | 1982-04-29 | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, Osaka | Steckverbinder mit Verbindungsstiften |
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- 1984-03-27 BR BR8401396A patent/BR8401396A/pt not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1984-03-29 JP JP59059672A patent/JPS59184478A/ja active Pending
- 1984-03-29 KR KR1019840001643A patent/KR900005873B1/ko not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1984-03-29 EP EP84302142A patent/EP0124264B1/de not_active Expired
- 1984-03-29 AT AT84302142T patent/ATE30987T1/de active
- 1984-03-29 CA CA000450907A patent/CA1215753A/en not_active Expired
- 1984-03-29 DE DE8484302142T patent/DE3467662D1/de not_active Expired
- 1984-03-30 AU AU26288/84A patent/AU546563B2/en not_active Ceased
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DE3467662D1 (en) | 1987-12-23 |
JPS59184478A (ja) | 1984-10-19 |
KR840008226A (ko) | 1984-12-13 |
AU2628884A (en) | 1984-10-04 |
AU546563B2 (en) | 1985-09-05 |
BR8401396A (pt) | 1984-11-06 |
ATE30987T1 (de) | 1987-12-15 |
EP0124264A1 (de) | 1984-11-07 |
CA1215753A (en) | 1986-12-23 |
KR900005873B1 (ko) | 1990-08-13 |
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